As an investment into the future, I ordered my Dell Inspiron with an Intel Q6600 and 4GB of RAM. After a little experience with it by now, I find it to be a real slowpoke. I compare it to my HP with AMD Duo 4800+ and 3 GB of RAM. The HP is a lot faster. Example. The Vista SP1 installation (without the download) took nearly twice as long on the Q6600 than on the 4800+. Also other normal day to day operations seem to be a lot slower. My prime suspect is the FSB which is twice as fast on the AMD than on the Intel. Cycle timing, memory and disk are about the same - so hard to find the difference there.
I saw that some of you have the Q6600. I would be interested to hear about your experience.
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Performance of Intel Q6600 quad processor
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I think part of the problem is likely that Dell is well known for including the worst possible motherboards/components in their budget computers, which is why they are always so cheap, but really underpowered compared to a better machine.
Since the SP1 installation is not processor intensive, it's much more likely that the problem is slower bus/hard drive in the dell.
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